CN114128342A

CN114128342A - Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) measuring method, device and system

Info

Publication number: CN114128342A
Application number: CN202080006857.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 东宁; 余波
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-30
Filing date: 2020-06-30
Publication date: 2022-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 2040-06-30
Also published as: CN114128342B; WO2022000352A1

Abstract

An ANR measurement method, device and system relate to the technical field of communication. In the method, a terminal (130) establishes RRC connections with a first access network device (110) and a second access network device (120), respectively, and performs ANR measurement on a neighboring cell according to a frequency band combination satisfied by a first frequency band and at least one second frequency band. The first frequency band is a frequency band to which the first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of a neighboring cell, a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is a first network standard adopted by the first access network device (110), the at least one second frequency band is a frequency band to which the at least one second carrier belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network device (120) which provides service for the terminal (130). Because the frequency bands meeting the frequency band combination relation do not interfere with each other when data transmission is carried out simultaneously, the terminal (130) carries out ANR measurement on the adjacent region according to the frequency band combination met by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band, and flow interruption can be reduced.

Description

Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) measuring method, device and system

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) measurement method, apparatus, and system.

Background

Currently, for a New Radio (NR) system, most operators adopt non-independent Networking (NSA), that is, a core network of a 4th generation (4G) network is used, the 4G network is used as an anchor point of a control plane, and a dual-connection mode of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system and an NR system is adopted, and an existing 4G network is used to deploy a 5th generation (5G) network to realize rapid deployment of the 5G network, where the access mode is called an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) and NR dual-connection (EN-DC) networking.

The terminal may communicate with the 4G network and the 5G network in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode. In the DRX mode, a terminal can receive a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) during an active time (active time) in one DRX cycle, and the terminal enters an inactive time (also referred to as a sleep time) except for the active time, and does not receive the PDCCH during the inactive time. When the terminal is in a connected state, a DRX mode of the terminal may be referred to as a Connected Discontinuous Reception (CDRX) mode.

In the ENDC system, if a terminal needs to measure neighbor cell information of an LTE neighbor cell, under the condition that the terminal is in a connected state with an NR base station, communication of the terminal on an NR cell needs to be temporarily disconnected, and the measurement of the neighbor cell information of the NR neighbor cell is similar, so that flow interruption can be caused by the scheme.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an ANR (automatic neighbor relation) measuring method, device and system, which are used for solving the problem of flow interruption caused by the existing ANR measuring method.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the embodiments of the present application provide the following technical solutions:

in a first aspect, an ANR measurement method is provided, which may be performed by a communication apparatus, where the communication apparatus may be a complete computer of a computing device, or may be a partial device in the computing device, for example, a chip related to a wireless communication function, such as a system chip or a communication chip. The system chip is also called a system on chip, or SoC chip. Specifically, the communication device may be a terminal such as a smartphone, and may also be a system chip or a communication chip that can be provided in the terminal. The communication chip may include one or more of a radio frequency processing chip and a baseband processing chip. The baseband processing chip is sometimes also referred to as a modem or baseband processor or baseband module. In physical implementation, the communication chip may be integrated inside the SoC chip or may not be integrated with the SoC chip. For example, the baseband processing chip is integrated in the SoC chip, and the radio frequency processing chip is not integrated with the SoC chip. The ANR measurement method will be described below by taking a communication apparatus as an example. The ANR measurement method comprises the following steps: and the terminal establishes RRC connection with the first access network equipment and the second access network equipment respectively, and performs ANR measurement on the adjacent cells according to the frequency band combination met by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band. The first access network equipment adopts a first network system, the second access network equipment adopts a second network system, and the first network system and the second network system are different; the first frequency band is a frequency band to which the first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of a neighboring cell, a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is a first network standard, at least one second frequency band is a frequency band to which at least one second carrier belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network equipment for providing service for the terminal. In the method provided by the first aspect, because interference between frequency bands satisfying the frequency band combination relationship does not occur when data transmission is performed simultaneously, the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the frequency band combination satisfied by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band, and whether to disconnect communication of the terminal on a cell of the second access network device, which serves the terminal, can be selected as needed, so that flow interruption can be reduced. In addition, the terminal does not need to start the ANR measurement after the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time, so that the problems that the LTE ANR measurement or the NR ANR measurement in scheme 2 cannot be started for a long time, the ANR measurement scheduling is delayed, the neighbor discovery is not in time, the accuracy of the network-side-initiated handover is low, and the like can be avoided.

In a possible implementation manner, the performing, by the terminal, the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the band combination satisfied by the first band and the at least one second band includes: when the first frequency range and the at least one second frequency range form at least one frequency range combination, and the at least one frequency range combination comprises the first frequency range combination, the terminal performs ANR measurement on the adjacent region; the first frequency band combination comprises a first frequency band and at least one second frequency band. In this possible implementation manner, when the at least one frequency band combination includes the first frequency band combination, it is stated that communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device that provides service for the terminal does not generate interference to ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, and therefore, the terminal may directly perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell without disconnecting communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device that provides service for the terminal, and avoiding flow interruption.

In a possible implementation manner, the performing, by the terminal, the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the band combination satisfied by the first band and the at least one second band includes: when the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band form at least one frequency band combination and the at least one frequency band combination does not have the frequency band combination comprising the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to disconnect the communication of the terminal on the N cells, and the terminal performs ANR measurement on the adjacent cells; the N cells are cells corresponding to N second carriers, the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands not belonging to the first frequency band combination, the first frequency band combination is one of at least one frequency band combination, and N is an integer greater than 0. In this possible implementation manner, when the N second carriers are second carriers that do not belong to the second frequency band corresponding to the second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, it is described that communication of the terminal on N cells corresponding to the N second carriers may cause interference to ANR measurement of a neighboring cell, and therefore, after the terminal may disconnect communication of the terminal on the N cells, the terminal may perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell without disconnecting communication of the terminal on all cells of the second access network device that provide services for the terminal, so that flow interruption is reduced.

In a possible implementation manner, the first frequency band combination is an optimal frequency band combination of the at least one frequency band combination, where the optimal frequency band combination refers to a frequency band combination having a smallest influence on the traffic of the terminal after the terminal is disconnected from the cell corresponding to the second carrier corresponding to the second frequency band that does not belong to the frequency band combination. The first frequency band combination selected by the possible implementation mode has the smallest influence on the flow of the terminal in the process of performing ANR measurement on the neighboring cell.

In a possible implementation manner, the first frequency band combination includes a frequency band to which a carrier of a primary cell and a secondary cell in an SCG of the second access network device belongs.

In a possible implementation manner, before the terminal performs the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell, the method further includes: the terminal informs the second access network equipment to suspend the communication of the terminal on the M cells, and loads radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination; the M cells are cells corresponding to M second carriers, the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to a second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, and M is an integer greater than 0. By loading the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination, the terminal can subsequently communicate on the cell through the new radio frequency parameters.

In a possible implementation manner, before the terminal performs the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell, the method further includes: and the terminal opens the radio frequency front end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers. The radio frequency front end access of the first carrier and the M second carriers is opened, so that the terminal can smoothly receive and transmit data.

In a possible implementation manner, before the terminal performs the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell, the method further includes: and when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination is completed, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to recover the communication of the terminal on the M cells. By restoring the communication of the terminal on the M cells, the terminal can normally communicate on the M cells during the ANR measurement of the neighbor cell, and the flow interruption is reduced.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: after the terminal completes ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the second access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the terminal notifies the second access network device to suspend communication of the terminal on the M cells, and loads at least one radio frequency parameter corresponding to the second frequency band. For the second access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the terminal needs to communicate in M cells, so that the communication of the terminal in M cells is suspended, and the loading errors of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands can be prevented.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: the terminal opens a radio frequency front end path of the at least one second carrier to provide for recovery of communication by the terminal on a cell of the second access network device serving the terminal.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: and when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the at least one second frequency band is finished, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to recover the communication of the terminal on the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier.

In a possible implementation manner, the performing, by the terminal, the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the band combination satisfied by the first band and the at least one second band includes: and when the first frequency band and any one of the at least one second frequency band do not form a frequency band combination, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to disconnect the communication between the terminal and the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier, and the terminal performs ANR measurement on the adjacent cell.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: the terminal determines a frequency band combination which is satisfied by a first frequency band and at least one second frequency band in a first subframe; the first subframe is a starting subframe of the terminal's inactive time for the first access network device, or the next subframe of the first subframe is a reception window of the MIB and/or SIB1 of the neighboring cell.

In a second aspect, an ANR measurement apparatus is provided, including: a processing unit and a communication unit; the processing unit is used for respectively establishing RRC connection with the first access network equipment and the second access network equipment through the communication unit; the first access network equipment adopts a first network system, the second access network equipment adopts a second network system, and the first network system and the second network system are different; the processing unit is further configured to perform, by the communication unit, ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to a combination of frequency bands that is satisfied by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band; the first frequency band is a frequency band to which the first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of a neighboring cell, a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is a first network standard, the at least one second frequency band is a frequency band to which the at least one second carrier belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network device, which provides service for the ANR measurement device.

In a possible implementation, the processing unit is specifically configured to, via the communication unit: when the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band form at least one frequency band combination, and the at least one frequency band combination comprises the first frequency band combination, performing ANR measurement on a neighboring cell; the first frequency band combination comprises a first frequency band and at least one second frequency band.

In a possible implementation, the processing unit is specifically configured to, via the communication unit: when the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band form at least one frequency band combination and the at least one frequency band combination does not have the frequency band combination comprising the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band, notifying the second access network equipment to disconnect the communication of the ANR measuring device on the N cells and carrying out ANR measurement on the adjacent cells; the N cells are cells corresponding to N second carriers, the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands not belonging to the first frequency band combination, the first frequency band combination is one of at least one frequency band combination, and N is an integer greater than 0.

In a possible implementation manner, the first band combination is an optimal band combination of the at least one band combination, where the optimal band combination is a band combination that has the smallest influence on the traffic of the ANR measurement apparatus after the ANR measurement apparatus is disconnected from a cell corresponding to a second carrier corresponding to a second band that does not belong to the band combination.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to suspend communication of the ANR measurement apparatus in M cells, and load radio frequency parameters corresponding to frequency bands in the first frequency band combination; the M cells are cells corresponding to M second carriers, the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to a second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, and M is an integer greater than 0.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to open radio frequency front-end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers.

In a possible implementation manner, when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination is completed, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to resume the communication of the ANR measurement apparatus in the M cells.

In a possible implementation manner, after the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell is completed, for the second access network device, when the ANR measuring apparatus is located within the activation time, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to suspend communication of the ANR measuring apparatus over the M cells, and load at least one radio frequency parameter corresponding to the second frequency band.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to open a radio frequency front end path of the at least one second carrier.

In a possible implementation manner, when the loading of the radio frequency parameter corresponding to the at least one second frequency band is completed, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to resume the communication of the ANR measurement apparatus on the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier.

In a possible implementation, the processing unit is specifically configured to, via the communication unit: and under the condition that the first frequency band and any one of the at least one second frequency band do not form a frequency band combination, notifying the second access network equipment to disconnect the communication between the ANR measuring device and the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier, and carrying out ANR measurement on the neighbor cell by the ANR measuring device.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to determine, in the first subframe, a frequency band combination that the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band satisfy; the first subframe is a starting subframe of an inactive time of the ANR measurement device for the first access network equipment, or a next subframe of the first subframe is a reception window of the MIB and/or the SIB1 of the neighboring cell.

In a third aspect, an ANR measurement apparatus is provided, including: a processor. The processor is connected with the memory, the memory is used for storing computer execution instructions, and the processor executes the computer execution instructions stored by the memory, so as to realize any one of the methods provided by the first aspect. For example, the memory and the processor may be integrated together or may be separate devices. In the latter case, the memory may be located inside the ANR measurement device or outside the ANR measurement device.

In one possible implementation, the processor includes logic circuitry and further includes at least one of an input interface and an output interface. Illustratively, the output interface is for performing the act of transmitting in the respective method and the input interface is for performing the act of receiving in the respective method.

In one possible implementation, the ANR measurement apparatus further includes a communication interface and a communication bus, and the processor, the memory, and the communication interface are connected by the communication bus. The communication interface is used for executing the actions of transceiving in the corresponding method. The communication interface may also be referred to as a transceiver. Optionally, the communication interface comprises at least one of a transmitter and a receiver, in which case the transmitter is configured to perform the act of transmitting in the respective method and the receiver is configured to perform the act of receiving in the respective method.

In one possible implementation, the ANR measurement device is in the form of a communication chip or chip system.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided an ANR measuring apparatus comprising a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executed on the processor, the computer program, when executed, causing the ANR measuring apparatus to perform any one of the methods provided by the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an ANR measurement apparatus is provided, including: a processor coupled to the memory through the interface, and an interface, which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform any of the methods provided by the first aspect, when the computer program or the computer executes instructions in the memory.

In a sixth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, comprising computer-executable instructions, which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform any one of the methods provided in the first aspect.

In a seventh aspect, a computer program product is provided, which comprises computer executable instructions, when the computer executable instructions are executed on a computer, the computer is caused to execute any one of the methods provided in the first aspect.

An eighth aspect provides a communication system including the communication apparatus, the ANR measurement apparatus provided in the second aspect, the ANR measurement apparatus provided in the third aspect, the ANR measurement apparatus provided in the fourth aspect, or the ANR measurement apparatus provided in the fifth aspect. Optionally, the first access network device and/or the second access network device are further included.

For technical effects brought by any implementation manner of the second aspect to the eighth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects brought by a corresponding implementation manner in the first aspect, and details are not described here.

It should be noted that, on the premise that the schemes are not inconsistent, the schemes in the above aspects may be combined.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a DRX cycle;

figure 3 is a schematic time domain location diagram of a PBCH;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the temporal location of a SIB 1;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of an ANR measurement;

FIG. 6 is yet another flow chart of ANR measurement;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating communications of a terminal before and during ANR measurement;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating communication between terminals before and during ANR measurement;

fig. 9 is a flowchart of an ANR measurement method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 10 is a flowchart of another ANR measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a flow chart of ANR measurement provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic communication diagram of a terminal before and during ANR measurement according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 13 is a flowchart of another ANR measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a flowchart of another ANR measurement method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 15 is a schematic communication diagram of a terminal before and during ANR measurement according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 16 is a schematic composition diagram of an ANR measurement apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 17 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ANR measurement apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 18 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of another ANR measurement apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In the description of this application, "/" means "or" unless otherwise stated, for example, A/B may mean A or B. "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, and means that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. Further, "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. The terms "first", "second", and the like do not necessarily limit the number and execution order, and the terms "first", "second", and the like do not necessarily limit the difference.

It is noted that, in the present application, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to mean exemplary, illustrative, or descriptive. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g.," is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

The device comprises an access network device and a terminal.

The access network device in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for sending a signal, or receiving a signal, or sending a signal and receiving a signal on a network side. The access network device may be a device deployed in a Radio Access Network (RAN) and providing a wireless communication function for a terminal, and for example, may be a Transmission Reception Point (TRP), a base station, various control nodes (e.g., a network controller, a radio controller (e.g., a radio controller in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN)) and the like. Specifically, the access network device may be a macro base station, a micro base station (also referred to as a small station), a relay station, an Access Point (AP), or the like in various forms, and may also be an antenna panel of the base station. The control node may be connected to a plurality of base stations, and configure resources for a plurality of terminals under the coverage of the plurality of base stations. In systems using different radio access technologies, the names of devices that function as base stations may differ. For example, the LTE system may be referred to as an evolved NodeB (eNB or eNodeB), and the NR system may be referred to as a next generation base station (gNB), where the application does not limit the specific name of the base station. The access network device may also be an access network device in a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for future evolution, and the like.

The terminal in the embodiment of the present application is an entity for receiving a signal, or transmitting a signal, or both receiving a signal and transmitting a signal, on the user side. The terminal is used to provide one or more of voice services and data connectivity services to the user. A terminal can also be called a User Equipment (UE), a terminal device, an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment. The terminal may be a Mobile Station (MS), a subscriber unit (subscriber unit), an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), an internet of things (IoT) device, a Station (ST) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), a cellular phone (cellular phone), a smart phone (smart phone), a cordless phone, a wireless data card, a tablet, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, a laptop computer (laptop computer), a Machine Type Communication (MTC) terminal, a handheld device having a wireless communication function, a computing device, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable smart device (also may be referred to as a wearable smart device). The terminal may also be a terminal in a next generation communication system, e.g. a terminal in a PLMN for future evolution, a terminal in an NR system, etc.

The method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to an ENDC system or a future evolution system or a plurality of communication fusion systems. The method provided by the embodiment of the application is exemplified by being applied to an ENDC system.

As shown in fig. 1, the architecture of the endec system may include two access network devices, such as access network device 110 and access network device 120 shown in fig. 1. The architecture may also include at least one terminal, such as terminal 130 shown in fig. 1. The terminal 130 may establish a wireless link with the access network device 110 and the access network device 120 through a Dual Connectivity (DC) technique.

In addition, as shown in fig. 1, there may be an access network device, such as the access network device 110, which is responsible for interacting Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages with the terminal 130 and interacting with a core network control plane entity, so that the access network device 110 may be referred to as a Master Node (MN), and the master node may be an access network device when the terminal 130 initially accesses. For example, the master node may be a master evolved NodeB (MeNB) or a master next generation base station (MgNB), but is not limited thereto. Another access network device, such as access network device 120, may be referred to as a Secondary Node (SN), which may be added during RRC reconfiguration to provide additional radio resources. For example, the secondary node may be a secondary evolved NodeB (SeNB) or a secondary next generation base station (SgNB), but is not limited thereto.

A plurality of serving cells in the primary node may form a Master Cell Group (MCG), which includes a primary cell (PCell) and optionally one or more secondary cells (scells). A plurality of serving cells in the secondary node may form a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), which includes a primary secondary cell (PSCell) and optionally one or more scells. The serving cell is a cell configured by the network for the terminal to perform uplink and downlink transmission. For example, an LTE cell may serve as a PCell of an MCG, and an NR cell may serve as a PSCell of an SCG. And vice versa. For convenience of description, in the following description, the primary node is an LTE base station, and the secondary node is an NR base station, that is, an LTE cell is a PCell of an MCG, and an NR cell is a PSCell of an SCG, which are taken as examples, and the method provided by the embodiment of the present application is exemplarily described.

Of course, in fig. 1, the access network device 120 may also be a primary node, and the access network device 110 may also be a secondary node, which is not limited in this application. Various devices in fig. 1, such as access network device 110, access network device 120, or terminal 130 in fig. 1, may be configured with multiple antennas. The plurality of antennas may include at least one transmit antenna for transmitting signals and at least one receive antenna for receiving signals. Additionally, each device may additionally include a transmitter and a receiver, each of which may include various components associated with signal transmission and reception (e.g., processors, modulators, multiplexers, demodulators, demultiplexers, antennas, etc.), as will be appreciated by one skilled in the art. Therefore, the access network equipment and the terminal can communicate through the multi-antenna technology.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication scenes. For example, machine to machine

The mobile communication system includes (machine to machine, M2M), macro and micro communication, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency communication (URLLC), vehicle networking, and mass internet of things communication (mtc).

The network architecture and the service scenario described in the embodiment of the present application are for more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application, and do not constitute a limitation on the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application. As can be known by those skilled in the art, with the evolution of network architecture and the emergence of new service scenarios, the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application is also applicable to similar technical problems.

In order to make the embodiments of the present application clearer, concepts and parts related to the embodiments of the present application will be briefly described below.

1. DRX mode

The DRX mode is a mode in which a terminal receives a signal, and in order to reduce power consumption of the terminal, the terminal may determine whether to receive a signal in the DRX mode according to a configuration of an access network device. When the terminal receives a signal in the DRX mode, the terminal may receive the PDCCH during an active time (active time) during one DRX cycle, and beyond the active time, the terminal may enter an inactive time (inactive time) (which may also be referred to as a sleep time) during which the terminal does not receive the PDCCH. For example, referring to fig. 2, in both DRX cycle 1 and DRX cycle 2, the terminal can only receive PDCCH during the active time. It should be noted that, in fig. 2, the active time and the inactive time in one DRX cycle are drawn as an example of a continuous time period, and in one DRX cycle, the active time may also be composed of a plurality of discontinuous time periods, and the inactive time may also be composed of a plurality of discontinuous time periods.

When the terminal is in a connected state, the DRX mode of the terminal may be referred to as CDRX mode. In the endec system, the terminal may use the same CDRX configuration or different CDRX configurations when communicating with the LTE base station and the NR base station. The CDRX configuration determines the length of the active and inactive time of the terminal.

2. Master Information Block (MIB)

The MIB may be used for downlink synchronization and may carry some cell parameters.

In the LTE system, the MIB is transmitted on a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). Referring to fig. 3, the PBCH is located on the first 4 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the 2 nd slot (slot) (i.e., slot 1) of subframe 0 of each system frame in the time domain, and occupies 72 central subcarriers (without dc carriers) in the frequency domain.

In NR systems, MIB is also transmitted on PBCH, which is transmitted with a period of 80 milliseconds (ms), and the specific slot position within the period is determined by synchronization signals and PBCH block (SSB) patterns (patterns).

3. System information Block 1(System information Block1, SIB1)

The SIB1 may be used to indicate the scheduling period and scheduling window of subsequent SIBs.

In an LTE system, SIB1 employs a fixed, 80ms scheduling period, which can be retransmitted within 80 ms. The first transmission of SIB1 is scheduled on subframe 5 of a system frame with a residue of 0 per System Frame Number (SFN) to 8 (i.e., SFN mod 8 ═ 0), while the retransmission is scheduled in subframe 5 of all other system frames with a residue of 0 to 2 (i.e., SFN mod 2 ═ 0) (see fig. 4). Where "mod" is a "remainder function".

In the NR system, the transmission period of the SIB1 is fixed to 160ms, and the transmission is repeated in the period, and the specific position of the repeated transmission is determined by a combination of an SSB pattern and a control resource set (CORESET).

4、ANR

In today's cellular mobile networks, one of the most time consuming tasks is the establishment and optimization of neighbour relations. The ANR function is able to automatically create and update neighbor relations between the serving cell (e.g., the MCG and SCG described above) and the neighbors to support cell handover. ANR functions can reduce the time required for configuration and planning of the network, optimizing network performance. The process of obtaining information of a neighboring cell of the serving cell through measurement may be referred to as ANR measurement.

In an ENDC system, when the signal quality of a PCell of a terminal is lower than a specified threshold, an access network device sends an RRC reconfiguration (RRC reconfiguration) message to the terminal to inform the terminal to initiate ANR measurement so as to discover a neighbor cell. The terminal automatically maintains the neighboring cell relationship in the E-UTRAN system, and the integrity, validity and correctness of the neighboring cell relationship between different systems such as a next generation radio access network (NG-RAN), an E-UTRAN, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (UMTS terrestrial radio access network, UTRAN), a global system for mobile communications (GSM enhanced)/data rate GSM evolution (enhanced data for GSM evolution, EDGE) radio access network (GSM/EDGE radio access network, GERAN), and the like. And the terminal reports the measured neighboring cell information (e.g., Cell Group Identity (CGI)) of the neighboring cell satisfying the condition to the access network device through an air interface, so that the access network device updates the neighboring cell relationship for handover decision.

The LTE ANR measurement (namely the ANR measurement of an LTE adjacent region, the LTE adjacent region is an adjacent region with a network standard of LTE) and the NR ANR measurement (namely the ANR measurement of an NR adjacent region, the NR adjacent region is an adjacent region with a network standard of NR) both comprise an MIB of a dendriform region and an SIB1 of the dendriform region. The terminal realizes downlink synchronization with a network device to which the neighboring Cell belongs by decoding an MIB of the neighboring Cell, acquires an operator identity (MCC) or a country identity (MNC) of the neighboring Cell by decoding an SIB1 of the neighboring Cell, and then adds a physical Cell identity (Cell ID) of the neighboring Cell to form a CGI of the neighboring Cell, and reports the CGI of the neighboring Cell to an access network device for maintaining a relationship of the neighboring Cell.

ANR measurements include two modes of idle time (idle period) and autonomous gap (autonomous gap). idle period refers to an ANR measurement mode for disconnecting communication of the terminal on all serving cells to receive MIB and/or SIB1 of the neighboring cell and acquiring neighboring cell information according to the received MIB and/or SIB1 during the deactivation time of CDRX. The autonomous gap refers to a window for receiving MIB and/or SIB1 of the neighboring cell (the size of the window may be determined according to the prior art, and is not described again, and for convenience, the window is hereinafter referred to as a receive window), disconnects communication of the terminal on all serving cells to receive MIB and/or SIB1 of the neighboring cell, and obtains an ANR measurement mode of the neighboring cell information according to the received MIB and/or SIB 1.

At present, an LTE system supports two ANR measurement modes, namely, idle period and autonomous gap, and NR only supports the ANR measurement mode of idle period.

5. Radio frequency nonvolatile (Non-Volatilientem, NV)

The radio frequency NV refers to non-volatile radio frequency data. The radio frequency NV may be stored in a non-volatile memory (NVM).

The radio frequency NV includes any one or more of: logic control parameters such as sending and receiving, temperature compensation, calibration parameters, audio related parameters, Input/Output (I/O) control parameters, charging current consumption and other current control parameters. The radio frequency NV may also include other radio frequency related data.

One carrier may correspond to one radio frequency NV. The radio frequency NV can be validated by loading the radio frequency NV (i.e., loading the radio frequency NV in the NVM into memory).

6. Radio frequency front end path

The RF front-end path is between the antenna and the RF transceiver, and the components mainly include a filter (Filters), a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a Power Amplifier (PA), an RF switch (RF switch), an RF antenna switch (RF antenna switch), and a duplexer.

The rf front end path may also be referred to as an rf resource, an rf channel, an rf switch, an rf front end, etc., and the present application is not limited thereto.

The radio frequency front end path comprises a receiving path and a transmitting path, and the signal transmission is seen from the line:

the signal transmission of the receiving path is as follows: signal-antenna-rf tuning switch-filter/duplexer-LNA-rf switch-rf transceiving-baseband.

The signal transmission of the sending path is as follows: baseband-rf transmit-receive-rf switch-PA-filter/duplexer-rf tuning switch-antenna-signal.

The antenna is used for transmitting and receiving radio waves. The radio frequency switch is used for realizing the switching of receiving and sending of radio frequency signals and the switching between different frequency bands (bands). The LNA is used to achieve radio frequency signal amplification of the receive path. The PA is used to achieve radio frequency signal amplification of the transmit path. The filter is used for reserving signals in a specific frequency band and filtering out signals outside the specific frequency band. The duplexer is used for isolating the transmitting signal and the receiving signal, and ensures that the receiving and the transmitting can work normally under the condition of sharing the same antenna.

One carrier may correspond to one rf front-end path, and when one carrier is used to transmit data, it is necessary to ensure that the rf front-end path (receiving path and/or transmitting path) corresponding to the carrier is open. Specifically, the purpose of opening the rf front-end path can be achieved by configuring the rf NV in the corresponding device at an appropriate time.

Currently, after a terminal is configured to initiate an ANR measurement, the terminal in the prior art may adopt the following scheme 1 or scheme 2 to perform the ANR measurement.

Scheme 1

In the ENDC system, when a terminal needs to measure neighbor cell information of an LTE neighbor cell, if the terminal is in a connected state with an NR base station, the terminal informs the NR base station to temporarily disconnect the communication of the terminal on a cell in an SCG. Similarly, when the terminal needs to measure the neighbor cell information of the NR neighbor cell, if the terminal is in a connected state with the LTE base station, the terminal notifies the LTE base station to temporarily disconnect the communication of the terminal on the cell in the MCG. This scheme can cause traffic disruption.

For example, taking the neighboring cell information of the LTE neighboring cell that the terminal needs to measure, referring to fig. 5 (a rectangular frame in fig. 5 is a subframe, and a shaded portion in fig. 5 is an ANR measurement time period), a process of the terminal performing an ANR measurement in an idle period ANR measurement manner may include the following steps:

1. and the terminal enters the non-activation time of the LTE CDRX and judges that ANR measurement needs to be started.

When the terminal determines that the LTE CDRX has enough idle period for ANR measurement (that is, the length of the inactivity time of the LTE CDRX is enough for ANR measurement), the terminal determines that ANR measurement needs to be started.

2. When the terminal is in a connected state with the NR base station, the terminal notifies the NR base station to temporarily disconnect the communication of the terminal on the cell in the SCG.

3. And the terminal loads the radio frequency NV of the carrier wave of the LTE adjacent cell.

4. The terminal starts LTE ANR measurement.

5. And the terminal completes LTE ANR measurement.

Between step 4 and step 5, the terminal may perform ANR measurement, that is, receive and analyze the MIB and SIB1 of the neighboring cell, and obtain the CGI of the neighboring cell. Then, the terminal may report the CGI of the neighboring cell to the LTE base station.

6. When the terminal disconnects communication on the cell in the SCG before the NR base station, the terminal notifies the NR base station to resume communication between the terminal and the cell in the SCG.

7. The communication of the terminal and the cell in the SCG resumes.

For example, taking the neighboring cell information of the LTE neighboring cell that the terminal needs to measure, referring to fig. 6 (one rectangular frame in fig. 6 is a subframe, and a shaded portion in fig. 6 is an ANR measurement time period), a process of the terminal performing an ANR measurement by using an ANR measurement manner of an autonomous gap may include the following steps:

1. and after the terminal judges that the subframe 1 is the sending position of the MIB or SIB1 of the LTE neighboring cell in the subframe 0, the terminal decides to start ANR measurement.

4. The terminal starts LTE ANR measurement.

5. And the terminal completes LTE ANR measurement.

7. The communication of the terminal and the cell in the SCG resumes.

Under the ENDC system, the LTE CDRX configuration and the NR CDRX configuration can be different, and the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) scheduling is completely asynchronous. It means that when the terminal enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time, it may still be at the NR CDRX active time. In scheme 1, when determining whether to start LTE ANR measurement, only LTE CDRX inactivity time is considered, and NR CDRX inactivity time is not considered, but communication between the terminal and a cell in the SCG is directly interrupted, which has a large influence on traffic. For example, referring to fig. 7, when LTE ANR measurement is not performed, the terminal uses the radio frequency front end path 1, the radio frequency front end path 2, and the radio frequency front end path 3 to communicate on the NR cell 1, the NR cell 2, and the NR cell 3, respectively, where the NR cell 1 is a main secondary cell, and the NR cell 2 and the NR cell 3 are a secondary cell 1 and a secondary cell 2, respectively. When the terminal performs LTE ANR measurement, the NR base station disconnects the terminal from communication in the NR cell 1, the NR cell 2, and the NR cell 3, and the terminal uses a radio frequency front end path (for example, the radio frequency front end path 1) to communicate with the LTE neighbor, thereby performing ANR measurement.

Scheme 2

Compared with the scheme 1, when the terminal needs to measure the neighbor information of the LTE neighbor, the scheme 2 is to start the ANR measurement after the terminal enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time and enters the NR CDRX inactivity time. That is, when the terminal enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time (ANR measurement mode for idle period), or acquires the transmission position of MIB or SIB1 of the LTE neighbor (ANR measurement mode for autonomous gap), the ANR measurement cannot be performed, and the ANR measurement is started only after the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time.

Compared with the scheme 1, when the terminal needs to measure the neighbor information of the NR neighbor, the scheme 2 is to start ANR measurement after the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time and enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time. That is, when the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time (ANR measurement mode for idle period), ANR measurement cannot be performed yet, and the ANR measurement is started only after the terminal enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time.

Because the LTE CDRX configuration and the NR CDRX configuration may be different, and the PDSCH scheduling is completely asynchronous, compared to the case that whether the ANR measurement is started is selected only by considering the LTE CDRX configuration or the NR CDRX configuration, whether the ANR measurement is started is selected by considering the LTE CDRX configuration and the NR CDRX configuration, a window time of the ANR measurement is greatly reduced, the LTE ANR measurement or the NR ANR measurement cannot be started for a long time, the ANR measurement scheduling is delayed, the neighbor discovery is not timely, and the accuracy of switching initiated by the network side is affected.

For example, referring to fig. 8, when only LTE CDRX inactivity time or only NR CDRX inactivity time is entered, or a sending position of MIB or SIB1 of an LTE neighboring cell is acquired, the terminal does not start LTE ANR measurement, and the terminal communicates on NR cell 1, NR cell 2, and NR cell 3 by using radio frequency front end path 1, radio frequency front end path 2, and radio frequency front end path 3, respectively, where NR cell 1 is a primary and secondary cell, and NR cell 2 and NR cell 3 are secondary cell 1 and secondary cell 2, respectively. When the terminal enters the LTE CDRX inactivity time and the NR CDRX inactivity time, the terminal starts LTE ANR measurement, the NR base station disconnects the terminal from communicating in the NR cell 1, the NR cell 2, and the NR cell 3, and the terminal communicates with the LTE neighbor cell by using a radio frequency front end path (for example, the radio frequency front end path 3) to perform ANR measurement.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides an ANR measurement method, which performs ANR measurement based on a band combination (band combination) relationship, and can reduce flow interruption and avoid ANR measurement scheduling delay. The method may be performed by a communication device, which may be a complete computer of the computing apparatus, or may be a part of a device in the computing apparatus, for example, a chip related to a wireless communication function, such as a system chip and a communication chip. The system chip is also called a system on chip, or SoC chip. Specifically, the communication device may be a terminal such as a smartphone, and may also be a system chip or a communication chip that can be provided in the terminal. The communication chip may include one or more of a radio frequency processing chip and a baseband processing chip. The baseband processing chip is sometimes also referred to as a modem or baseband processor or baseband module. In physical implementation, the communication chip may be integrated inside the SoC chip or may not be integrated with the SoC chip. For example, the baseband processing chip is integrated in the SoC chip, and the radio frequency processing chip is not integrated with the SoC chip.

The ANR measurement method will be described below by taking a communication apparatus as an example. As shown in fig. 9, the method includes:

901. and the terminal establishes RRC connection with the first access network equipment and the second access network equipment respectively.

The first access network equipment adopts a first network standard, the second access network equipment adopts a second network standard, and the first network standard and the second network standard are different. Illustratively, in one case, the first access network device is an LTE base station, and the second access network device is an NR base station, where the first network standard is LTE and the second network standard is NR. In another case, the first access network device is an NR base station, and the second access network device is an LTE base station, where the first network system is NR and the second network system is LTE.

The LTE base station may have one cell (i.e., only the PCell is included in the MCG) or may have a plurality of cells (i.e., the PCell and at least one SCell are included in the MCG). Similarly, the NR base station may have one cell (i.e., only PSCell is included in SCG) or may have a plurality of cells (i.e., PSCell and at least one SCell are included in SCG).

902. And the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the frequency band combination which is satisfied by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band (marked as X second frequency bands, wherein X is an integer greater than 0).

The terminal may obtain a carrier (i.e., a first carrier) of the neighboring cell through cell search. The ANR measurement mode adopted by the terminal may be idle period or autonomous gap.

It should be noted that, when data transmission is performed simultaneously between frequency bands satisfying the frequency band combination relationship, interference does not occur between the frequency bands.

The first frequency band is a frequency band to which the first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of a neighboring cell, and a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is a first network standard. And when the first network standard is LTE, the adjacent cell is an LTE adjacent cell, and when the first network standard is NR, the adjacent cell is an NR adjacent cell.

The X second frequency bands are frequency bands to which at least one second carrier (denoted as X 'second carriers, where X' is an integer greater than 0) belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network device that provides a service for the terminal, for example, when the second access network device is an NR base station, the second carrier is a carrier of a cell in an SCG, and when the second access network device is an LTE base station, the second carrier is a carrier of a cell in an MCG. Illustratively, when a cell of the second access network device that provides service for a terminal includes 4 cells, which are cell 1 to cell 4, respectively, second carriers corresponding to the 4 cells are second carriers 1 to second carriers 4, respectively, and frequency bands to which the second carriers 1 to the second carriers 4 belong, that is, X second frequency bands. The different second carriers may belong to the same second frequency band or may belong to different second frequency bands. When different second carriers belong to different second frequency bands, the correspondence between the cell, the second carrier, and the second frequency band can be seen in table 1.

TABLE 1

Optionally, the method further includes: and the terminal determines the frequency band combination which is satisfied by the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands in the first subframe. The first subframe is a starting subframe of an inactive time of the terminal for the first access network device (ANR measurement mode for idle period), or a next subframe of the first subframe is a reception window of MIB and/or SIB1 of a neighboring cell (ANR measurement mode for autonomous gap).

When determining the frequency band combination satisfied by the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands, the terminal may determine in a traversal manner. Specifically, before determining the frequency band combinations that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy, the memory stores radio frequency parameters of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands, and the NV stores radio frequency parameters of each frequency band combination. The terminal may compare (e.g., perform correlation calculation) the radio frequency parameters stored in the memory with the radio frequency parameters of each frequency band combination stored in the NV, and if the radio frequency parameters stored in the memory are found to be similar or identical to the radio frequency parameters of a certain frequency band combination stored in the NV, it indicates that a frequency band combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands exists, otherwise, it indicates that a frequency band combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands does not exist. Then, the terminal may deactivate a second frequency band (denoted as a second frequency band a) in the memory, that is, the terminal may cover the existing radio frequency parameters in the memory by using the first frequency band and X-1 second frequency bands (frequency bands other than the second frequency band a in the X second frequency bands), or, after deleting the radio frequency parameters of the second frequency band a in the memory, compare the radio frequency parameters in the memory with the radio frequency parameters of each frequency band combination stored in the NV, and find that the radio frequency parameters in the memory are similar or identical to the radio frequency parameters of a certain frequency band combination stored in the NV, which indicates that there is a frequency band combination including the first frequency band and the X-1 second frequency bands.

It should be noted that, when determining the frequency band combination, the terminal may not determine all frequency band combinations, but only determine the frequency band combination including the frequency band number greater than a certain threshold and/or the frequency band combination including the frequency band to which the carrier of the PSCell belongs, which is not limited in this application.

When performing an ANR measurement in the prior art, in order to avoid interference of communication of a terminal on a cell of a second access network device, which serves the terminal, with the ANR measurement of a neighboring cell, the communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device, which serves the terminal, is disconnected, thereby causing flow interruption. According to the method provided by the embodiment of the application, because mutual interference cannot be generated when data transmission is simultaneously performed between the frequency bands meeting the frequency band combination relationship, the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the frequency band combination met by the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands, whether the terminal disconnects communication on the cell, serving the terminal, of the second access network device can be selected according to needs, and flow interruption can be reduced. In addition, the terminal does not need to start the ANR measurement after the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time, so that the problems that the LTE ANR measurement or the NR ANR measurement in scheme 2 cannot be started for a long time, the ANR measurement scheduling is delayed, the neighbor discovery is not in time, the accuracy of the network-side-initiated handover is low, and the like can be avoided.

The frequency band combination relationship that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy may be in the following three cases (denoted as case 1, case 2, and case 3), and the implementation process of step 902 in the following three cases and three cases is described below.

In case 1, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands constitute at least one frequency band combination, and a frequency band combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands exists in the at least one frequency band combination.

In case 1, the step 902 may include, when implemented: and the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighbor cell.

In case 1, a frequency band combination including a first frequency band and X second frequency bands may be referred to as a first frequency band combination. When the at least one frequency band combination includes the first frequency band combination, it is described that communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device, which provides service for the terminal, does not generate interference to ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, so that the terminal can directly perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell without disconnecting communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device, which provides service for the terminal, and flow interruption is avoided.

Exemplarily, when the X second bands are 4 second bands shown in table 1, the first band and the X second bands form 5 band combinations, and the 5 band combinations can be referred to in table 2, and since the band combination 1 includes the first band and the 4 second bands shown in table 1, the terminal can directly perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell.

TABLE 2

Frequency band combination	Frequency band in a frequency band combination
Frequency band combination 1	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 2, a second frequency band 3, a second frequency band 4
Frequency band combination 2	First frequency band and second frequency band 1
Frequency band combination 3	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 2, a second frequency band 3
Frequency band combination 4	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 3, a second frequency band 4
Frequency band combination 5	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 2, a second frequency band 4

Case 2, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands constitute at least one frequency band combination, and there is no frequency band combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands in the at least one frequency band combination.

In case 2, the step 902 may include, when implemented: the terminal informs the second access network equipment to cut off the communication of the terminal on the N cells, and the terminal performs ANR measurement on the adjacent cells; the N cells are cells corresponding to N second carriers, the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands not belonging to the first frequency band combination, the first frequency band combination is one of at least one frequency band combination, and N is an integer greater than 0.

When the N second carriers are second carriers that do not belong to the second frequency band corresponding to the second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, it is described that communication of the terminal on N cells corresponding to the N second carriers interferes with ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, and therefore, after the terminal disconnects communication of the terminal on the N cells, the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell without disconnecting communication of the terminal on all cells of the second access network device that provide services for the terminal, thereby reducing flow interruption.

Illustratively, when the X second frequency bands are 4 second frequency bands shown in table 1, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form 4 frequency band combinations, where the 4 frequency band combinations can be referred to as table 3, and when the first frequency band combination is the frequency band combination 2, the terminal notifies the second access network device to disconnect the communication of the terminal on the cell 4 corresponding to the second carrier 4 corresponding to the second frequency band 4.

TABLE 3

Frequency band combination	Frequency band in a frequency band combination
Frequency band combination 1	First frequency band and second frequency band 1
Frequency band combination 2	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 2, a second frequency band 3
Frequency band combination 3	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 3, a second frequency band 4
Frequency band combination 4	A first frequency band, a second frequency band 1, a second frequency band 2, a second frequency band 4

In case 2, the first frequency band combination may be any one of the frequency band combinations, and in order to reduce the influence on the traffic of the terminal, optionally, the first frequency band combination is an optimal frequency band combination in the at least one frequency band combination, where the optimal frequency band combination refers to the frequency band combination having the smallest influence on the traffic of the terminal after the communication between the terminal and the cell corresponding to the second carrier corresponding to the second frequency band not belonging to the frequency band combination is disconnected.

The influence of one carrier on the traffic of the terminal may be determined by parameters corresponding to the carriers, where the parameters may include one or more of the following: a bandwidth of an active part (BWP), a number of receiving antennas, and a latest Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS). The smaller the parameter corresponding to the carrier is, the smaller the influence on the traffic of the terminal is. When the parameter corresponding to one carrier includes a plurality of parameters, the traffic influence on the terminal may be represented by a product of values of the plurality of parameters, and a smaller product indicates a smaller traffic influence on the terminal.

In case 1 and case 2, optionally, when the second access network device is an NR base station, the first frequency band combination includes a frequency band to which a carrier of a PSCell in an SCG of the second access network device belongs, and when the second access network device is an LTE base station, the first frequency band combination includes a frequency band to which a carrier of a PCell in an MCG of the second access network device belongs.

In case 3, the first frequency band and any one of the X second frequency bands do not form a frequency band combination.

In case 3, the step 902 may include, when implemented: and the terminal informs the second access network equipment to disconnect the communication between the terminal and the cells corresponding to the X' second carriers, and the terminal performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cells.

When the first band and any one of the X second bands do not form a band combination, it indicates that communication of the terminal on the X' second carriers generates interference to ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, and therefore, the terminal may disconnect all cells of the second access network device that provide services for the terminal, and then perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell, so as to smoothly complete ANR measurement of the neighboring cell.

In the foregoing

cases

1 and 2, optionally, before the terminal performs the ANR measurement on the neighboring cell, the method further includes:

11) the terminal notifies the second access network device to suspend the communication of the terminal on the M cells, and loads the radio frequency parameters (i.e., the radio frequency NV in the foregoing) corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination. By loading the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination, the terminal can subsequently communicate on the cell through the new radio frequency parameters.

The M cells are cells corresponding to M second carriers, the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to a second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, and M is an integer greater than 0.

In the foregoing

cases

12) and the terminal opens the radio frequency front end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers. The radio frequency front end access of the first carrier and the M second carriers is opened, so that the terminal can smoothly receive and transmit data.

In the foregoing

cases

13) and when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination is completed, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to recover the communication of the terminal on the M cells. By restoring the communication of the terminal on the M cells, the terminal can normally communicate on the M cells during the ANR measurement of the neighbor cell, and the flow interruption is reduced.

Optionally, after the terminal completes the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the second access network device, the method further includes:

21) and when the terminal is positioned in the activation time, the terminal informs the second access network equipment to suspend the communication of the terminal on the M cells and loads the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands, and when the terminal is positioned in the deactivation time, the terminal directly loads the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands. Optionally, when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands is completed, the terminal notifies the second access network device to resume the communication of the terminal on the cells corresponding to the X' second carriers.

After the terminal completes the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, it needs to recover the communication of the terminal on the cell of the second access network device that provides service for the terminal, and therefore, the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands need to be loaded. It can be understood that, for the second access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the terminal needs to communicate on M cells, and therefore, in order to prevent loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands from being mistaken, communication of the terminal on the M cells may be suspended. When the terminal is located in the inactive time, the terminal does not need to communicate in M cells, and therefore, the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the X second frequency bands can be directly loaded.

Optionally, after the terminal completes the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, the method further includes:

22) and the terminal loads radio frequency parameters corresponding to the S frequency bands. The S frequency bands are frequency bands to which carriers of a cell of the first access network device that provides service for the terminal belong. Optionally, when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the S frequency bands is completed, the terminal notifies the first access network device to resume the communication of the terminal on the cell of the first access network device providing the service for the terminal.

After the terminal completes the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, it needs to recover the communication of the terminal on the cell of the first access network device that provides service for the terminal, and since the communication of the terminal on the cell of the first access network device that provides service for the terminal is disconnected, the terminal may directly load the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the S frequency bands.

Optionally, after the terminal completes the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the second access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the method further includes:

31) the terminal opens the radio frequency front end paths of X' second carriers.

After the terminal completes ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the second access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the terminal needs to communicate on a cell of the second access network device that provides service for the terminal, and therefore, the terminal needs to open radio frequency front end paths of X' second carriers.

Optionally, for the first access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the method further includes:

32) and the terminal opens a radio frequency front end channel of a carrier of a cell for providing service for the terminal of the first access network equipment.

After the terminal completes ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the first access network device, when the terminal is located within the activation time, the terminal needs to communicate on a cell of the first access network device that provides service for the terminal, and therefore, the terminal needs to open a radio frequency front end path of a carrier of the cell of the first access network device that provides service for the terminal.

In order to make the embodiment of the present application more clear, taking the first access network device as an LTE base station and the second access network device as an NR base station as an example, the following briefly describes a flow of implementing the above method for a terminal through fig. 10, with reference to fig. 10, where the method includes:

1001. the terminal initiates an ANR measurement.

1002. The terminal determines whether the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form a frequency band combination.

If yes, go to step 1003. If not, go to step 1004-step 1015.

1003. And the terminal performs LTE ANR measurement.

1004. The terminal determines whether the first frequency band and a second frequency band to which a second carrier of the PSCell belongs belong to a frequency band combination.

If not, go to step 1005, and if yes, go to step 1006-step 1015.

1005. The terminal informs the NR base station to disconnect the terminal from communication in all cells in the SCG, and performs LTE ANR measurement.

1006. Let i equal 1.

1007. It is determined whether there is a combination of frequency bands that satisfies the condition.

The frequency band combination meeting the condition is the frequency band combination of X +1-i frequency bands including the first frequency band and the second frequency band to which the second carrier of the PSCell belongs.

If yes, go to step 1008-step 1013. If not, go to step 1014 and step 1015.

1008. And determining whether the number P of the frequency band combinations meeting the condition is more than 1.

If yes, go to step 1009-step 1012. If not, go to step 1013.

1009. And determining the frequency band combination with the minimum influence on the terminal flow in the P frequency band combinations.

1010. And determining whether the number of the frequency band combinations with the minimum influence on the terminal flow is more than 1.

If yes, go to steps 1011-1012, otherwise go to step 1012.

1011. And randomly selecting a frequency band combination which has the smallest influence on the terminal flow.

1012. And carrying out LTE ANR measurement based on the frequency band combination with the minimum influence on the terminal flow.

In the step 1012, in a specific implementation, reference may be made to the above case 2, which is not described herein again.

1013. And carrying out LTE ANR measurement based on the frequency band combination meeting the condition.

In the step 1013, in the case 2, the specific implementation of the present application can be referred to, and details are not described here.

1014. Let i equal i + 1.

1015. It is determined whether i is greater than or equal to X-1.

If yes, go to step 1005. If not, return to step 1007.

In order to make the above embodiments more clear, the flow of the method provided by the present application is briefly described in the sequence from front to back in time series. Specifically, the following examples 1 to 3 are described separately.

Example 1

In embodiment 1, a case where the first access network device is an LTE base station, the second access network device is an NR base station, and a frequency combination relationship that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy is the case 1 (that is, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form at least one frequency combination, and a frequency combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands exists in the at least one frequency combination), and an ANR measurement manner is idle period is taken as an example to briefly introduce the flow of the method provided in this application.

Referring to fig. 11, embodiment 1 provides a method including:

1101. the terminal enters LTE CDRX non-activation time in a subframe 0, the terminal judges that ANR measurement needs to be started in the subframe 0, and the first frequency range and the X second frequency ranges form a frequency range combination.

In embodiment 1, the first frequency band is a frequency band to which a first carrier of an LTE neighboring cell belongs. The X second frequency bands are frequency bands to which carriers of all cells in the SCG belong.

1102. When the terminal is in a connected state with the NR base station, the terminal informs the NR base station to suspend the communication of the terminal on all cells in the SCG.

1103. And the terminal loads the radio frequency parameters of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands and opens radio frequency front-end channels of the first carrier and carriers of all cells in the SCG.

1104. If the radio frequency parameters of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands are loaded and the radio frequency front-end paths of the first carrier and the carriers of all cells in the SCG are opened in subframe 1 of the LTE CDRX inactivity time, the terminal resumes communication on all cells in the SCG and starts LTE ANR measurement.

During the measurement of the LTE ANR, the communication of the terminal on all cells in the SCG is performed normally, and when the terminal enters the NR CDRX inactivity time, the processing is performed according to a normal flow, so that the LTE ANR measurement is not affected.

1105. And in a subframe N +1 of the LTE CDRX non-activation time, the terminal completes LTE ANR measurement.

1106. When the terminal is in the NR CDRX activation time, the terminal informs the NR base station to suspend the communication of the terminal on all cells in the SCG, loads the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the MCG and the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the SCG, and opens the radio frequency front end channels of the carriers of all cells in the SCG.

1107. In subframe N +2 of the LTE CDRX inactivity time, the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the MCG and the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the SCG are loaded completely, and the radio frequency front end paths of carriers of all cells in the SCG are opened, and the terminal notifies the NR base station to resume communication on all cells in the SCG.

For example, referring to fig. 12, when the terminal does not perform ANR measurement, the terminal employs a radio frequency front end path 1, a radio frequency front end path 2, and a radio frequency front end path 3 to communicate on an NR cell 1, an NR cell 2, and an NR cell 3, respectively, where the NR cell 1 is a main secondary cell, and the NR cell 2 and the NR cell 3 are a secondary cell 1 and a secondary cell 2, respectively. When the terminal performs ANR measurement under the condition that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form a frequency band combination, the radio frequency front end path 1, the radio frequency front end path 2, and the radio frequency front end path 3 are respectively used for communicating on the NR cell 1, the NR cell 2, and the NR cell 3, and the radio frequency front end path 4 is also used for communicating on an LTE neighboring cell.

In embodiment 1, it is assumed that the NR base station has K service carriers and the service traffic of each service carrier is average, the PDSCH scheduling of each time slot is uniform, the service continuity of the NR service carriers of N LTE subframes can be ensured in N +2 LTE subframes, and the traffic can be improved by (N/N +2) times.

When the first access network device is an NR base station, the frequency band combination relationship that the second access network device is an LTE base station, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy is the above case 1, and the ANR measurement mode is idle period, an implementation process of the method provided by the present application is similar to the process shown in fig. 11, which can be understood by reference and is not described again.

Example 2

In embodiment 2, a case where the first access network device is an LTE base station, the second access network device is an NR base station, and a frequency combination relationship that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy is the case 1 (that is, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form at least one frequency combination, and a frequency combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands exists in the at least one frequency combination), and the ANR measurement mode is an autonomous gap is taken as an example to briefly introduce the flow of the method provided in this application.

Referring to fig. 13, embodiment 2 provides a method including:

1301. and the terminal judges that the subframe 1 is a receiving window of the MIB and/or SIB1 of the neighboring cell in the subframe 0, determines to start ANR measurement, and judges that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form a frequency band combination.

In embodiment 2, the first frequency band is a frequency band to which a first carrier of an LTE neighboring cell belongs. The X second frequency bands are frequency bands to which carriers of all cells in the SCG belong.

1302. The same as step 1102.

1303. The same as in step 1103.

1304. If the loading of the radio frequency parameters of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands is completed in the subframe 1, and the radio frequency front-end paths of the first carrier and the carriers of all the cells in the SCG are opened, the terminal resumes the communication on all the cells in the SCG, and starts the LTE ANR measurement.

1305. And in the subframe N +1, the terminal completes LTE ANR measurement.

1306. As in step 1106.

1307. In subframe N +2, the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the MCG and the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the SCG are loaded completely, and the radio frequency front end paths of the carriers of all cells in the SCG are opened, and the terminal notifies the NR base station to resume the communication on all cells in the SCG.

For example, in embodiment 2, when the terminal does not perform the ANR measurement and performs the ANR measurement, refer to fig. 12 for communication of the terminal, which is not described again. Similar to example 1, under example 2, a (N/N +2) fold increase in flow rate can be obtained.

Example 3

In embodiment 3, the first access network device is an LTE base station, the second access network device is an NR base station, a frequency combination relationship that the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy is the above case 2 (that is, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands form at least one frequency combination, and there is no frequency combination including the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands in the at least one frequency combination), and an ANR measurement manner is idle period.

As shown in fig. 14, the method provided in embodiment 3 includes:

1401. the terminal enters LTE CDRX non-activation time in a subframe 0, the terminal judges that ANR measurement needs to be started in the subframe 0, determines frequency band combinations consisting of the first frequency band and X second frequency bands, and determines the first frequency band combination in the frequency band combinations.

In embodiment 3, the first frequency band is a frequency band to which a first carrier of an LTE neighboring cell belongs. The X second frequency bands are frequency bands to which carriers of all cells in the SCG belong.

For example, the frequency band combination of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands may be as shown in table 3.

In step 1401, in a specific implementation, the first frequency band combination may be a frequency band combination with the largest number of frequency bands, including a frequency band to which a carrier of the PSCell belongs, and when there are a plurality of such frequency band combinations, a frequency band combination with the smallest influence on the traffic of the terminal is selected. When there are a plurality of frequency band combinations with the minimum influence on the traffic of the terminal, one of the frequency band combinations is arbitrarily selected as the first frequency band combination.

For example, when the frequency band combination composed of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands is as shown in table 3, and the parameters corresponding to the respective second frequency bands are as shown in table 4, since the frequency band combination 2, the frequency band combination 3, and the frequency band combination 4 are the frequency band combination with the largest number of frequency bands including the frequency band to which the carrier of the PSCell belongs, the first frequency band combination may be determined among the frequency band combination 2, the frequency band combination 3, and the frequency band combination 4. The second carrier 2 has an influence on the traffic of the terminal of 40 × 2 × P — 80P, the second carrier 3 has an influence on the traffic of the terminal of 50 × 4 × P — 200P, and the second carrier 4 has an influence on the traffic of the terminal of 60 × 2 × P — 120P.

TABLE 4

Exemplarily, when the frequency band combination composed of the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands is as shown in table 3, and the parameters corresponding to the respective second frequency bands are as shown in table 5. Since the frequency band combination 2, the frequency band combination 3, and the frequency band combination 4 are the frequency band combinations with the largest number of frequency bands including the frequency band to which the carrier of the PSCell belongs, the first frequency band combination can be determined among the frequency band combination 2, the frequency band combination 3, and the frequency band combination 4. The influence of the second carrier 2 on the traffic of the terminal is 40 × 2 × 12 — 960, the influence of the second carrier 3 on the traffic of the terminal is 40 × 2 × 13 — 1040, and the influence of the second carrier 4 on the traffic of the terminal is 40 × 2 × 5 — 400, and since the influence of the second carrier 4 on the traffic of the terminal is the smallest, it is possible to determine that the band combination (i.e., the band combination 2) that does not include the second band 4 to which the second carrier 4 belongs is the first band combination.

TABLE 5

1402. When the terminal is in a connected state with the NR base station, the terminal informs the NR base station to disconnect the communication of the terminal on the N cells, and informs the NR base station to suspend the communication of the terminal on the M cells.

The N cells are cells corresponding to the N second carriers, and the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands not belonging to the first frequency band combination. The M cells are cells corresponding to the M second carriers, and the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to the second frequency bands in the first frequency band combination.

1403. And the terminal loads the radio frequency parameters of each frequency band in the combination of the first frequency band and opens radio frequency front-end channels of the first carrier and the M second carriers.

1404. If the radio frequency parameter loading of each frequency band in the combination of the first frequency band and the first frequency band is completed in subframe 1 of the LTE CDRX inactivity time, and the radio frequency front-end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers are opened, the terminal resumes communication in the M cells, and starts LTE ANR measurement.

During LTE ANR measurement, communication of the terminal on the M cells is normally carried out, when the terminal enters NR CDRX non-activation time, processing is carried out according to a normal flow, and LTE ANR measurement is not influenced.

1405. And in a subframe N +1 of the LTE CDRX non-activation time, the terminal completes LTE ANR measurement.

1406. When the terminal is in the NR CDRX activation time, the terminal informs the NR base station to suspend the communication of the terminal on the M cells, loads the radio frequency parameters of all the cells in the MCG and the radio frequency parameters of all the cells in the SCG, and opens the radio frequency front end channels of the carriers of all the cells in the SCG.

1407. In subframe N +2 of the LTE CDRX inactivity time, the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the MCG and the radio frequency parameters of all cells in the SCG are loaded completely, and the radio frequency front end paths of carriers of all cells in the SCG are opened, and the terminal notifies the NR base station to resume communication on all cells in the SCG.

For example, referring to fig. 15, when the terminal does not perform ANR measurement, the terminal employs a radio frequency front end path 1, a radio frequency front end path 2, and a radio frequency front end path 3 to communicate on an NR cell 1, an NR cell 2, and an NR cell 3, respectively, where the NR cell 1 is a main secondary cell, and the NR cell 2 and the NR cell 3 are a secondary cell 1 and a secondary cell 2, respectively. If the first frequency band combination does not include the frequency band to which the carrier of the NR cell 3 belongs, when the terminal performs ANR measurement, the radio frequency front end path 1 and the radio frequency front end path 2 are used to communicate with the NR cell 1 and the NR cell 2, respectively, and the radio frequency front end path 3 is used to communicate with the LTE neighboring cell.

In embodiment 3, it is assumed that the NR base station has K service carriers and the service traffic of each service carrier is average, and the PDSCH scheduling of each time slot is uniform, if the communication of the terminal on the cell corresponding to the partial carrier is interrupted, L service carriers (L < K, and L service carriers include the carrier of the PScell) remain, the service continuity of the NR remaining service carriers of N LTE subframes can be ensured in N +2 LTE subframes, and the traffic can be improved by (L/K) ((N/N + 2)) times.

When the first access network device is an NR base station, the frequency band combination relationship that the second access network device is an LTE base station, the first frequency band and the X second frequency bands satisfy is case 2, and the ANR measurement mode is idle period, an implementation process of the method provided by the present application is similar to the process shown in fig. 14, which can be understood by reference and is not described again.

In the description of the above embodiments of the present application, the carriers may also be replaced with frequency points.

The above description has presented the embodiments of the present application primarily from a method perspective. It is to be understood that each network element, for example, the ANR measuring apparatus, includes at least one of a hardware structure and a software module corresponding to each function for implementing the functions. Those of skill in the art would readily appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as hardware or combinations of hardware and computer software. Whether a function is performed as hardware or computer software drives hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

In the embodiment of the present application, the functional units of the ANR measurement device may be divided according to the above method example, for example, the functional units may be divided according to each function, or two or more functions may be integrated in one processing unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit. It should be noted that the division of the unit in the embodiment of the present application is schematic, and is only a logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation.

For example, fig. 16 shows a schematic diagram of a possible structure of the ANR measuring device (referred to as the ANR measuring device 160) according to the embodiment, where the ANR measuring device 160 includes a processing unit 1601 and a communication unit 1602. Optionally, a storage unit 1603 is further included. ANR measurement device 160 may be, for example, the terminal described above.

The processing unit 1601 is used for controlling and managing actions of the ANR measuring device, for example, the processing unit 1601 is used for executing steps in fig. 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14, and/or actions performed by the ANR measuring device in other processes described in the embodiments of the present application. The processing unit 1601 may communicate with other network entities, e.g., with a first access network device and/or a second access network device, via the communication unit 1602. The storage unit 1603 is used to store program codes and data of the ANR measurement apparatus.

For example, the ANR measuring device 160 may be a device or a communication chip or chip system.

When the ANR measurement device 160 is a device (e.g., a terminal), the processing unit 1601 may be a processor; the communication unit 1602 may be a communication interface, a transceiver, or an input interface and/or an output interface. Alternatively, the transceiver may be a transmit-receive circuit. Alternatively, the input interface may be an input circuit and the output interface may be an output circuit.

When ANR measurement device 160 is a communication chip or system-on-chip, communication unit 1602 may be a communication interface, an input interface and/or an output interface, an interface circuit, an output circuit, an input circuit, a pin or related circuit, etc. on the communication chip or system-on-chip. The processing unit 1601 may be a processor, a processing circuit, a logic circuit, or the like.

The communication apparatus (or ANR measurement apparatus) in the embodiment of the present application may be a complete computer of the computing device, or may also be a partial device in the computing device, for example, a chip related to a wireless communication function, such as a system chip and a communication chip. The system chip is also called a system on chip, or SoC chip. Specifically, the communication apparatus (or ANR measurement apparatus) may be a terminal such as a smartphone, and may also be a system chip or a communication chip that can be provided in the terminal. The communication chip may include one or more of a radio frequency processing chip and a baseband processing chip. The baseband processing chip is sometimes also referred to as a modem or baseband processor or baseband module. In physical implementation, the communication chip may be integrated inside the SoC chip or may not be integrated with the SoC chip. For example, the baseband processing chip is integrated in the SoC chip, and the radio frequency processing chip is not integrated with the SoC chip.

The integrated unit in fig. 16, if implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a separate product, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application may be essentially implemented or make a contribution to the prior art, or all or part of the technical solutions may be implemented in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, and including several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. A storage medium storing a computer software product comprising: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ANR measuring apparatus, referring to fig. 17 or fig. 18, the ANR measuring apparatus includes a processor 1701, and optionally, a memory 1702 connected to the processor 1701.

The processor 1701 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or one or more ics for controlling the execution of programs in accordance with the teachings of the present application. The processor 1701 may also include multiple CPUs, and the processor 1701 may be one single-core (single-CPU) processor or a multi-core (multi-CPU) processor. A processor herein may refer to one or more devices, circuits, or processing cores that process data (e.g., computer program instructions).

The memory 1702 may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that can store static information and instructions, a RAM or other type of dynamic storage device that can store information and instructions, an EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory), a CD-ROM (compact disk read-only memory) or other optical disk storage, optical disk storage (including compact disk, laser disk, optical disk, digital versatile disk, blu-ray disk, etc.), a magnetic disk storage medium or other magnetic storage device, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited in this respect. The memory 1702 may be separate (in which case the processor may be located outside or within the ANR measurement device), or may be integrated with the processor 1701. Memory 1702 may contain computer program code therein. The processor 1701 is configured to execute the computer program code stored in the memory 1702, thereby implementing the methods provided by the embodiments of the present application.

In a first possible implementation, referring to fig. 17, the ANR measurement apparatus further includes a transceiver 1703. The processor 1701, the memory 1702 and the transceiver 1703 are connected by a bus. The transceiver 1703 is used to communicate with other devices or a communication network. Optionally, the transceiver 1703 may include a transmitter and a receiver. The device for implementing the receiving function in the transceiver 1703 can be regarded as a receiver for performing the receiving step in the embodiments of the present application. The device for implementing the transmitting function in the transceiver 1703 can be regarded as a transmitter for performing the transmitting step in the embodiment of the present application.

Based on the first possible implementation manner, the structure diagram shown in fig. 17 may be used to illustrate the structure of the terminal involved in the above embodiment. The processor 1701 is configured to control and manage the actions of the ANR measurement device, for example, the processor 1701 is configured to execute the steps of fig. 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14, and/or the actions performed by the ANR measurement device in other processes described in the embodiments of the present application. The processor 1701 may communicate with other network entities, e.g., with a first access network device and/or a second access network device, via the transceiver 1703. A memory 1702 is used to store program codes and data for the ANR measurement device.

In a second possible implementation, the processor 1701 includes logic circuitry and at least one of an input interface and an output interface. Illustratively, the output interface is for performing the act of transmitting in the respective method and the input interface is for performing the act of receiving in the respective method.

Based on the second possible implementation manner, referring to fig. 18, the schematic structure diagram shown in fig. 18 may be used to illustrate the structure of the terminal involved in the above embodiment. The processor 1701 is configured to control and manage the actions of the ANR measurement device, for example, the processor 1701 is configured to execute the steps of fig. 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14, and/or the actions performed by the ANR measurement device in other processes described in the embodiments of the present application. The processor 1701 may communicate with other network entities, such as with a first access network device and/or a second access network device, through at least one of an input interface and an output interface. A memory 1702 is used to store program codes and data for the ANR measurement device.

In implementation, the steps of the method provided by this embodiment may be implemented by hardware integrated logic circuits in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware processor, or may be implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in a processor.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium, which includes computer-executable instructions, which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform any one of the methods described above.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product, which contains computer executable instructions, and when the computer program product runs on a computer, the computer is caused to execute any one of the methods described above.

An embodiment of the present application further provides an ANR measuring device, including: a processor coupled to the memory through the interface, and an interface, when the processor executes the computer program or the computer execution instructions in the memory, the processor causes any one of the methods provided by the above embodiments to be performed.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a communication system, which includes the communication device (or ANR measurement device). Optionally, the first access network device and/or the second access network device are further included.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented using a software program, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. The procedures or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the present application are all or partially generated upon loading and execution of computer program instructions on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). Computer-readable storage media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer or can comprise one or more data storage devices, such as servers, data centers, and the like, that can be integrated with the media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

While the present application has been described in connection with various embodiments, other variations to the disclosed embodiments can be understood and effected by those skilled in the art in practicing the claimed application, from a review of the drawings, the disclosure, and the appended claims. In the claims, the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and the word "a" or "an" does not exclude a plurality. A single processor or other unit may fulfill the functions of several items recited in the claims. The mere fact that certain measures are recited in mutually different dependent claims does not indicate that a combination of these measures cannot be used to advantage.

Although the present application has been described in conjunction with specific features and embodiments thereof, it will be apparent that various modifications and combinations can be made therein without departing from the scope of the application. Accordingly, the specification and figures are merely exemplary of the present application as defined in the appended claims and are intended to cover any and all modifications, variations, combinations, or equivalents within the scope of the present application. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

Claims

An Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) measurement method, comprising:

the communication device establishes Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the first access network equipment and the second access network equipment respectively; the first access network equipment adopts a first network standard, the second access network equipment adopts a second network standard, and the first network standard is different from the second network standard;

the communication device performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to the frequency band combination met by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band; the first frequency band is a frequency band to which a first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of the neighboring cell, a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is the first network standard, the at least one second frequency band is a frequency band to which at least one second carrier belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network device, which provides service for the communication device.
The method of claim 1, wherein the communication device performing ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to a combination of the first band and the at least one second band, comprises:

when the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band form at least one frequency band combination, and the at least one frequency band combination comprises the first frequency band combination, the communication device performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell; wherein the first frequency band combination comprises the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band.
The method of claim 1, wherein the communication device performing ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to a combination of the first band and the at least one second band, comprises:

when the first band and the at least one second band form at least one band combination, and there is no band combination including the first band and the at least one second band in the at least one band combination, the communication apparatus notifies the second access network device to disconnect communication of the communication apparatus on N cells, and the communication apparatus performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell; the N cells are cells corresponding to N second carriers, the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands that do not belong to a first frequency band combination, the first frequency band combination is one of the at least one frequency band combination, and N is an integer greater than 0.
The method according to claim 3, wherein the first frequency band combination is an optimal frequency band combination of the at least one frequency band combination, and the optimal frequency band combination is a frequency band combination that has a smallest influence on traffic of the communication device after the communication between the communication device and a cell corresponding to a second carrier corresponding to a second frequency band that does not belong to the frequency band combination is disconnected.
The method of claim 3 or 4, wherein the first frequency band combination includes a frequency band to which a carrier of a primary and secondary cell in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) of the second access network device belongs.
The method of any of claims 2-5, wherein prior to the communication device making the ANR measurement of the neighbor, the method further comprises:

the communication device informs the second access network equipment to suspend the communication of the communication device on the M cells, and loads radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination; the M cells are cells corresponding to M second carriers, the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to a second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, and M is an integer greater than 0.
The method of claim 6, wherein prior to the communication device making ANR measurements of the neighbor, the method further comprises:

the communication device opens radio frequency front end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers.
The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein prior to the communication device making ANR measurements of the neighbor, the method further comprises:

and when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination is completed, the communication device informs the second access network equipment to recover the communication of the communication device on the M cells.
The method according to any one of claims 6-8, further comprising:

after the communication apparatus completes ANR measurement of the neighboring cell, for the second access network device, when the communication apparatus is located within the activation time, the communication apparatus notifies the second access network device to suspend communication of the communication apparatus on the M cells, and loads the radio frequency parameter corresponding to the at least one second frequency band.
The method of claim 9, further comprising:

the communication device opens a radio frequency front end path of the at least one second carrier.
The method according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that the method further comprises:

and when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to the at least one second frequency band is completed, the communication device notifies the second access network equipment to recover the communication of the communication device on the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier.
The method of claim 1, wherein the communication device performing ANR measurement on the neighboring cell according to a combination of the first band and the at least one second band, comprises:

when the first band and any one of the at least one second band do not form a band combination, the communication device notifies the second access network device to disconnect communication between the communication device and a cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier, and the communication device performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell.
The method according to any one of claims 1-12, further comprising:

the communication device determines a frequency band combination which is satisfied by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band in a first subframe; wherein the first subframe is a starting subframe of an inactive time of the communication apparatus for the first access network device, or a next subframe of the first subframe is a reception window of a master information block MIB and/or a system information block 1SIB1 of the neighboring cell.
An apparatus for measuring an Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR), comprising: a processing unit and a communication unit;

the processing unit is configured to establish radio resource control RRC connections with the first access network device and the second access network device through the communication unit; the first access network equipment adopts a first network standard, the second access network equipment adopts a second network standard, and the first network standard is different from the second network standard;

the processing unit is further configured to perform, by the communication unit, ANR measurement on a neighboring cell according to a combination of frequency bands that is satisfied by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band; the first frequency band is a frequency band to which a first carrier belongs, the first carrier is a carrier of the neighboring cell, a network standard adopted by the neighboring cell is the first network standard, the at least one second frequency band is a frequency band to which at least one second carrier belongs, and the second carrier is a carrier of a cell of the second access network device, which provides service for the ANR measurement device.
The ANR measurement device of claim 14, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to, with the communication unit:

performing ANR measurement on the neighboring cell when at least one frequency band combination is formed by the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band and the at least one frequency band combination comprises the first frequency band combination; wherein the first frequency band combination comprises the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band.
The ANR measurement device of claim 14, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to, with the communication unit:

when the first band and the at least one second band form at least one band combination and there is no band combination including the first band and the at least one second band in the at least one band combination, notifying the second access network device to disconnect communication of the ANR measurement apparatus over N cells and perform ANR measurement on the neighboring cell; the N cells are cells corresponding to N second carriers, the N second carriers are second carriers corresponding to second frequency bands that do not belong to a first frequency band combination, the first frequency band combination is one of the at least one frequency band combination, and N is an integer greater than 0.
The ANR measurement device of claim 16, wherein the first band combination is an optimal band combination of the at least one band combination, and the optimal band combination is a band combination that has a smallest impact on traffic of the ANR measurement device after the ANR measurement device is disconnected from a cell corresponding to a second carrier that does not belong to a second band of the band combinations.
The ANR measurement apparatus of claim 16 or 17, wherein the first combination of frequency bands includes a frequency band to which a carrier of a primary and secondary cell in a secondary cell group SCG of the second access network device belongs.
The ANR measurement device of any of claims 15-18,

the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to suspend communication of the ANR measurement apparatus in M cells, and load radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination; the M cells are cells corresponding to M second carriers, the M second carriers are second carriers corresponding to a second frequency band in the first frequency band combination, and M is an integer greater than 0.
The ANR measurement device of claim 19,

the processing unit is further configured to open radio frequency front-end paths of the first carrier and the M second carriers.
The ANR measurement device of claim 19 or 20,

when the loading of the radio frequency parameters corresponding to each frequency band in the first frequency band combination is completed, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to resume the communication of the ANR measurement apparatus on the M cells.
The ANR measurement device of any of claims 19-21,

after the ANR measurement of the neighboring cell is completed, for the second access network device, when the ANR measurement apparatus is located within the activation time, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to suspend communication of the ANR measurement apparatus over the M cells, and load the radio frequency parameter corresponding to the at least one second frequency band.
The ANR measurement device of claim 22,

the processing unit is further configured to open a radio frequency front end path of the at least one second carrier.
The ANR measurement device of claim 22 or 23,

when the loading of the radio frequency parameter corresponding to the at least one second frequency band is completed, the processing unit is further configured to notify, by the communication unit, the second access network device to resume the communication of the ANR measurement apparatus on the cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier.
The ANR measurement device of claim 14, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to, with the communication unit:

when the first band and any one of the at least one second band do not form a band combination, notifying the second access network device to disconnect communication between the ANR measurement apparatus and a cell corresponding to the at least one second carrier, where the ANR measurement apparatus performs ANR measurement on the neighboring cell.
The ANR measurement device of any of claims 14-25,

the processing unit is further configured to determine, in a first subframe, a frequency band combination that the first frequency band and the at least one second frequency band satisfy; wherein the first subframe is a starting subframe of an inactivity time of the ANR measurement apparatus for the first access network device, or a next subframe of the first subframe is a receive window of a master information block MIB and/or a system information block 1SIB1 of the neighboring cell.
An apparatus for measuring an Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR), comprising: a processor;

the processor is coupled to a memory for storing computer-executable instructions, the processor executing the computer-executable instructions stored by the memory to cause the ANR measurement device to implement the method of any of claims 1-13.
An apparatus for measuring an Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR), comprising: a processor coupled with a memory through an interface, and an interface, which when executed by the processor causes the method of any one of claims 1-13 to be performed, a computer program or computer-executable instructions in the memory.
A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-13.
A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-13.
A communication system, comprising: an ANR measurement apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 14 to 26, or as claimed in claim 27, or as claimed in claim 28.